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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Four

February 20, 2009

Paco continues his guest post arc on the plight of the unemployed product manager (see parts 1, 2, and 3). Give him some love and a job already! Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Four Ahh, the final installment. Time to wrap this puppy up. Sadly, I can’t really [...]

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Guest Post: The Cranky Sales Engineer Weighs in on Career Change

February 20, 2009

The Cranky Sales Engineer has been reading Paco’s musings on moving into sales with some interest.  Having been laid off four times, and having made the transition between marketing and sales and back and back again, and having been a manager of sales engineers, he offers the following suggestions: Numbers, Numbers, Numbers—The Cranky Sales Engineer [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Three

February 19, 2009

Paco continues his guest post arc (see part 1 and part 2), allowing the Cranky Product Manager to enjoy some time with her kid. Thanks! Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed PM, Part Three Last time, I waxed poetic (I’m being generous) about learning to drink dirt once the Product Management well [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part Two

February 17, 2009

Paco continues his guest post arc (see part 1), allowing the Cranky Product Manager to rest yet another day Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part Two In the previous installment, I blathered about how bad the job market is right now. Think Les Miserables except less French people [...]

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Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager – Part One

February 16, 2009

You guys know Paco, right? He always makes intelligent comments on posts, participates in caption contests, etc… He is a one COOL dude. Anyway, he’s giving the Cranky Product Manager a rest this week with part one of a four part series on being an unemployed product manager. The Cranky Product Manager finds his perspective [...]

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How to Get Hired By The Cranky Product Manager

August 8, 2007

After her last post, the Cranky Product Manager received a bevy of emails asking “given the recruiting process is a bore that yields lackluster results, how does a candidate rise above the process and snag the job?” A fine question, Grasshopper.  Sit at the feet of the Cranky Product Manager and receive the wisdom she [...]

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Seeking Gems in a Sea of Manure

July 25, 2007

The Cranky Product Manager dislikes hiring people. DysfunctoSoft’s entire recruiting process is a bore. And frustrating. And seemingly designed to ensure the hiring of the mediocre.* Each step, each phase, is pure tedium: The crafting of dreary “this is a totally wicked awesome job and DysfunctoSoft is such a crazy FUN company that (get this!) [...]

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